Root priviledges needed to poweroff

[ergodic]

Karel your philosophy is correct.  I have seen this issue when my grandchildren complained that they could not turn of their box after it was was upgraded to F-17.  That is why I filed Bug 843299.

Manny



----- Original Message -----
Dne St 25. července 2012 11:46:51, Adam Williamson napsal(a):
> I just tested on two F17 machines and running 'reboot' as a
> regular user happily reboots the system even if root is logged
> in at VT2, no warning or authentication required. That does
> seem to make the 'protection' on the graphical reboot button a
> bit pointless, but meh.

ahem, any such "protection" is pointless and in fact 
contraproductive as long as the user is able to pull out the AC 
cord (or the battery in case of laptops) (or use sysreq magic)

warning? - good idea, and it should be more sophisticated to be 
helpful when asking others to save the work and logout (or 
identifying what is running and who runs it)

authentication? - no, as it may prevent the user from shutting 
down the system gracefully

K.

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